The Fight Over Dakota Access Pipeline at Standing Rock

Wednesday, Mar 15, 2017

In his first week in office, President Donald Trump moved to advance construction of both the Keystone XL and Dakota Access Pipelines, despite an initial victory for opponents of DAPL, with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers refusing to grant an easement for the oil pipeline to cross under a lake near the Sioux Standing Rock reservation late last year. Native Americans and activists from around the country had gathered at the Oceti Sakowin Camp on the edge of the Standing Rock Sioux Reservation in North Dakota for several months trying to halt the DAPL construction. The proposed 1,172-mile pipeline would transport oil from the North Dakota Bakken region through South Dakota, Iowa and into Illinois.